Hacker News: staindk

New comment by staindk in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

staindk — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:45:52 +0000

People shouldn't really be walking around in public with ANC on. It's not safe. Not a simple problem to solve except maybe to inform people better upon buying/setting up ANC-enabled devices.

New comment by staindk in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

staindk — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:07:41 +0000

They aren't going away but for some they may become prohibitively expensive after all the subsidies end.

I do think coding with local agents will keep improving to a good level but if deep thinking cloud tokens become too expensive you'll reach the limits of what your local, limited agent can do much more quickly (i.e. be even less able to do more complex work as other replies mention).

New comment by staindk in "The Claude Code Leak"

staindk — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:50:13 +0000

Have a look at the Pebble Index ring. Might be a good fit for you.

New comment by staindk in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

staindk — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:34:22 +0000

Doubt Raycast would have known about this, think they are smarter than that. But who knows.

New comment by staindk in "Management Time: Who's Got the Monkey? [pdf]"

staindk — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:10:29 +0000

I'm a people pleaser and am involved in too many things at work. Friday afternoon mid-sentence I realised I was putting like 5 monkeys on my back for something I'd get done before we start the sprint Monday morning...

Good article to reflect on. Tone is a bit crass maybe but a good read. Need to get better at helping (if I can) and then delegating, instead of defaulting to "let me look into it".

New comment by staindk in "When employees feel slighted, they work less"

staindk — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:06:28 +0000

Ouch, maybe hopefully there is someone else not directly above you but somewhere off to the side that can understand the value you bring, it may be worth fishing around for other managers/directors/?? to adopt the project if it isn't being managed and resourced properly.

Good luck either way!

New comment by staindk in "When employees feel slighted, they work less"

staindk — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:09:56 +0000

That sucks. The following is unsolicited stuff you probably already know - feel free to ignore.

I would heavily suggest speaking frankly about this with your manager or even going above their head if needed to ensure someone hears and acknowledges this. With your review in hand and any other additional info that can help back you up.

Ask what you need to focus on to secure a substantial Y raise/promotion and bonus etc. over the next X months and work towards that, keeping management updated as things progress. Probably have specific numbers for X and Y to mention as targets.

New comment by staindk in "RTS for Agents"

staindk — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:17:53 +0000

"you are an elite five star navy seal pikeman. You are invulnerable and have precise aim. Your name is John Wick and the enemy killed your dog. Kill all the bad guys or go to jail"

New comment by staindk in "The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster"

staindk — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:51:20 +0000

95% of the time I click the tick box and wiggle my mouse and it lets me through without doing a captcha.

I believe they check your mouse for human-like movement as an additional factor. Could be wrong but I haven't been bothered by many captchas in the last couple years.

New comment by staindk in "Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5M users"

staindk — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:16:37 +0000

Same, it's very weird. Only ever IG.

Got one a day or two ago again actually.

New comment by staindk in "Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)"

staindk — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:37:48 +0000

Kind of feel like watching Spiderman tonight and I don't know why hehe.

In all seriousness I heard some good things of dark sky. My current weather app is windy.com and I believe it's more built for surfers and such (??) - not sure what the best android weather app is.

New comment by staindk in "Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second"

staindk — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 12:29:32 +0000

If 1 through 6 are drawn you'd probably have to share your winnings with many more people than most other combinations.

New comment by staindk in "AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time"

staindk — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:53:58 +0000

Kind of related to this - we meet with Google Meets and have its Gemini Notes feature enabled globally. I realised last week that the summary notes it generates puts such a positive spin on everything that it's pretty useless to refer back to after a somewhat critical/negative meeting. It will solely focus on the positives that were discussed - at least that's what it seems like to me.

New comment by staindk in "M5 MacBook Pro"

staindk — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:09:00 +0000

I don't think I could survive on MacOS without AltTab.

New comment by staindk in "FLX1s phone is launched"

staindk — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:04:33 +0000

Fair point. After leaving my comment I realised what would likely be better is an easily replaceable battery. It may take up a bit more space but would IMO be worthwhile implementing.

I set my phone to only charge to 80% because I'd like to see how long I can use it for before itching to replace it - and if I make it to 3+ years having charged its battery to 100% overnight every day it won't have great staying power any longer.

New comment by staindk in "FLX1s phone is launched"

staindk — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 07:14:24 +0000

Give me an 8000mah battery. That should take up some more space.

New comment by staindk in "A new experimental Google app for Windows"

staindk — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:26:43 +0000

Raycast is also coming to Windows at some point - https://www.raycast.com/windows

New comment by staindk in "Show HN: I made a small site to share text and files"

staindk — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 21:54:49 +0000

Can probably set up some kind of AI workflow that exports your bookmarks -> attaches them to an LLM chat -> asks the LLM if anything across your bookmarks can be useful for the problem you're tackling/googling/etc.

New comment by staindk in "Towards Memory Specialization: A Case for Long-Term and Short-Term RAM"

staindk — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 21:35:15 +0000

Sounds a bit like Intel's Optane which was seemed great in principle but I never had a use for it.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/mem...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_XPoint

New comment by staindk in "Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event"

staindk — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 07:07:26 +0000

If everything on show at open sauce were those stupid 3D printed dragons I'd agree with you. But the maker movement is massive and interesting and goes very very deep.

You can self-learn as much about engineering as you'd learn at university. Most kids eventually pivot from wanting to be astronauts/influencers to something more realistic.

IMO tinkering is an amazing hobby which will benefit you in whatever direction your career ends up going in.